Interesting that it says "every keystroke is encrypted" - seems this is pretty fast and doesn't have the lag that I would expect in that case.
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mblevin commented on SBF Caught Using VPN While Awaiting Criminal Trial [pdf] ia801508.us.archive.org/2... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7
This dude just cannot tell the truth even for a second.
Obviously nobody needs a VPN to watch something on a national broadcast and he's clearly up to SOMETHING that he shouldn't be under the guise of accessing his NFL game pass account.
This is continual sociopath behavior from someone who can't possibly believe that they could ever do anything wrong, and they are simply misunderstood.
It's utterly maddening.
mblevin commented on The maze is in the mouse: what ails Google medium.com/@pravse/the-ma... · Posted by u/npalli
Sure Google is a lot more than search at this point, so it's not the right mission. Though, I would say "organizing the world's information" is at least one of the right missions for the company.
Funny enough - Satya Nadella introduced a new mission statement at Microsoft shortly after he became CEO[1].
It's pretty anodyne, but by design - it's a way to push the company towards different ways of operating by creating a pretext to say "X project is part of the new mission and here's why" from a top-down perspective.
1. https://www.geekwire.com/2015/exclusive-satya-nadella-reveal...
mblevin commented on The maze is in the mouse: what ails Google medium.com/@pravse/the-ma... · Posted by u/npalli
>> Does anyone at Google come into work actually thinking about “organizing the world’s information”?
This is the poignant question IMO.
The texture of the internet has changed drastically since the golden age of "Googling" for things. I feel like the current search vs. SEO paradigm has become a losing battle. The bad actors have adapted to Google's algorithms and now resemble the holes in Search's strategy like some over evolved contagion. The main issues I see as a lay person are:
- Bounce time and other metrics actively incentivizing content to be obfuscated and waste user's time.
- Content theft being viable and disincentivizing high quality content that can be copied easily.
- Walled garden sites that don't want to surrender their content for ad impressions and aren't easily or impossible to index.
I feel like solutions to the above problems would involve Google killing its own golden advertisement goose.
Maybe there are high influence Googlers that do come into work and think about “organizing the world’s information . . .” but a "in way that makes Google the most money" is inevitably tacked on.
The other issue is also does "organizing the world's information" fit as the right mission for the company? Company missions change over time.
Larry Page said almost 10 years ago (!!!) that Google's mission probably needed to be updated. That's a long time to be lost in the wilderness.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/03/larry-pag...
mblevin commented on Evernote to be acquired by Bending Spoons evernote.com/blog/evernot... · Posted by u/taldo
Yeah, regardless of the two it is, I'm saving that for later.
Very much on purpose and I stole that from somebody else long ago.
mblevin commented on Evernote to be acquired by Bending Spoons evernote.com/blog/evernot... · Posted by u/taldo
The End of an Error for the world's most disappointing note-taking app.
I think part of the struggle here is that no two people can agree on what ailed them.
From lack of innovation for years, to an incomprehensibly bad rich text editor interface that broke all established conventions, to 0-60 from "zero monetization" to "monetize every time you even think about clicking a button", to a ground-up rewrite that put it on part with it's counterparts from 2012, etc.
It's almost like it's failure was overdetermined.
Fascinating case study in a journey from ubiquity to obscurity.